Video: Don't forget to back up

There's nothing worse than losing your precious photos or all the work that you've put into organizing them here in the Organizer, so I can't urge you strongly enough to remember to backup regularly. And you can do that using the Backup Catalog command here in the File menu in the Organizer. This will back up both your catalog and your photos. Before you use this command, you may want to come down here to the Reconnect command and set it to Reconnect All Missing Files, just in case the links between your catalog and some of those files have been broken as we're working on the files.

In this course, photographer and author Jan Kabili walks you through importing, organizing, and finding your photos using the Organizer in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. The course covers importing photos from your camera and computer; reviewing and evaluating photos; tagging images with ratings, keywords, people, and places; working with files and folders; and creating and organizing albums. Jan also shows how to find images with metadata and in the timeline, and how to apply instant photo fixes and Quick Edit image adjustments.

Don't forget to back up

There's nothing worse than losing your precious photos or all the work thatyou've put into organizing them here in the Organizer, so I can't urge youstrongly enough to remember to backup regularly.And you can do that using the Backup Catalog command here in the File menu in the Organizer.This will back up both your catalog and your photos.Before you use this command, you may want to come down here to the Reconnectcommand and set it to Reconnect All Missing Files,just in case the links between your catalog and some of those files have beenbroken as we're working on the files.

I covered reconnecting files in a movie earlier in the course.When you're done with that, you may also want to select all the photos in yourCatalog and choose Save Metadata To Files; and that will embed in your actualphoto files the metadata that you've added in the Organizer.Then when you're ready, attach a large external hard drive to your computer--which is preferable to using multiple CDs or DVDs to back up your catalog in thephotos--and go to the file Backup Catalog command here.If you've run the Reconnect command, as I just recommended, you won't seea warning like this.

If you do see this warning, then it's best to click Reconnect and try toreconnect all your files to the catalog.I'm just going to click Continue for now, so I can show you the next step in backing up.Here in the Backup window, you have two choices.The first time that you're backing up from the Organizer, it's importantto choose Full Backup.And that will back up your entire catalog and all your photos.Then in the future, after you've done one Full Backup, you can chooseIncremental Backup, and that will back up just any modifications that you'vemade since the last backup, and it ought to go a lot faster.

So I'm going to stick with Full Backup here and click Next.In this Window, you'll click on the drive to which you want to backup and if youwant to set a Backup path to a particular directory or folder, you can do that.I'm just going to leave this as is, and the next step is to click Save Backup.At that point, you should see an estimate of the time it will take to take theBackup, along with the Progress Bar as your Backup progresses.And when the Backup is all done, you should see an alert that the Backup hasbeen completed successfully.So, please don't forget to Backup your catalog and your files this way on aregular basis to save all your hard work and your important photos.

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